Lack of limit on tile sizes in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/image
Priority MEDIUM 40Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 10 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
The TIFF decoder does not set a limit on the size of tiles in tiled images, permitting a malicious or corrupt image containing a very large tile to cause unbounded memory consumption.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00609 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial golang.org/x/image/tiff (golang.org/x/image): 0.43.0Red Hat: 10 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | golang.org/x/image/tiff | before 0.43.0 | 0.43.0 | Patch available | CNA |
- golang.org/x/image/tiff VendorGo standard library Affected before 0.43.0 Fixed in 0.43.0 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA golang.org/x/image/tiff (golang.org/x/image) Fixed in 0.43.0
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Cryostat 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Multicluster Global Hub | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Serverless | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift GitOps | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 2 products
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-46602
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pwfv-328h-75x9
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
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- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-24278 HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-05208 The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-16309 Panic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/image CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-20112 Request smuggling due to improper request handling in golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-46602 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-46602 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pwfv-328h-75x9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-46602 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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